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THE WASHINGTON TDIES. WEDNESDAY; FEBRUARY 5,; 1913T
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UKB DEMAND
PRISON TERMS FOR
Committee of Prosecution Asks
Jaii Sentences for Gompers
and Two Chiefs.
(Continued from First Page.)
upon the court's authority ana dlsnlty,
of which it had found them guilty.
"As to the first suggestion, it Is
enough to say that while It is trus
that the litigation, in tho course of
which the respondents har committed
their contempts, was at an end, and
the private right sought to be pro
tected by Jie injunction, was no longer
pressing upon the, com t bejow for its
nid, yet in- the truest sense the high
est Interest of eve.ry litigant was in
volved and the private rights of every
citizen were to be subserved by the
-action of the court- below.
"As to the other 'suggestion that the
various incendiary statements of the
respondents'which the' record contains
rere' not attended bv public disorder,
it may be said that this was perhaps
due to the fact that the Federal courts
still possess adequate power to protect
themselves from insult and oppression
by those who would override them, ot-
wjiicn power the record 'thows lhtt
the resondents avowedly seek to" de
prive Jhem by their antl-injuncticn
and contempt measures..
"If the punishments Imposed in the
present case had been? unprecedented,
-they -would not have been onr that ac
count cruel or unusual, because our legal
annals contain no such precedent of will
ful and defiant disobedience and con
tempt of the court's authority as existed
in this case. The defendants the rec
ord shows, before the injunction was
granted, declared openly and defiantly
that they would not obey It If granted,
and, after the granting of the injunc
tion, they declared in print, in public
speech, and in every other conceivable
" way. that the injunction made no dif
ference, that they would no obey it.
that they would rather go to
Jail than obey It, that they
appealed, to their confederates and
heir friends to disobey it and to
deprive it of all practical effcet. and ad
vised them that all who lived territori
ally outside of the jurisdiction of the
Supreme Court of the District of Col
umbia could disobey it with impunity,
if they thereafter kept without the Dis
trict." In regard to the inherent power of the
Equity Court to punish for contempt,
the prosecutors argue:
"The learned counsel for the respon
dents have not been able to cite any
authority for the proposition that courts
of equity have not the same Inherent
power which, under all the authorities,
belongs to all courts to punish disobe
dience and insult to its dignity and
authority. On the contrary, in every
Instance In which a punitive sentence
has been imposed for contempt of the
equity courts, the proceeding has been
instituted, and prosecuted to the end,
in tbosj courts. The origin and the uni
versality of this Inherent -power, in all
courts, and the necessity for it, is rec-"
ttgrifaeCt in all the authorities upon the
subject, manv of -RhIchwIH be cited In
other conpectlons In this brief."
The pro'secutors take-up the claim of
the respondents that there was no in
tentions, of the labor leaders to con
tinue the boycott after the court's in
junction had been Issued. It was' con
tended by .Mr. Goaifters "that he simply
rxcrcpa nis rcnt 01 - iree FDeecn ana
the liberty of the press." To this the
prosecutors reply: 3 '
1 . Refute Argument - "
'3 either the specifications of error
northe brief of ihe respondents contain
an intimation' that theinjunctlons In
this ,case Infringed the respondents'
constituilpnal rights of association, -of;
Tree press or tof free speach. Those
contentions, once so prominent In this
litigation, and particularly In the litera
ture of the respondents in evidence in
this case, have at last been abandoned."
Pointing out wherein the labor lead
ers are alleged to have violated the
Injunction, the prosecutors quote these
extracts from a speech by President
Gompers:
"The court will soon gi-e a decision
on, the legal !tsue which has been
. raised. , We shall continue to maintain
that we iave the right to publish the
name of the Bucks' Stove and Range
Company 'upon the we don't patronize
lift. Should wc be enjoined by the
court from doing so. the merits of the
case will not be altered, nor can any
court decision take from any man the
risht to bestow his patronago where
he pleases t
,"liear In mind that -you have a right
to d-clde how our money shall be ex
pended. You may or may not buy the
products of the Bucks Stove -and'Range
Company. There is no law nor edict
of court that can compel you to buy a
Sucks stove or range."
Points to Privileges.
"You cannot be prohibited from In
forming your friends and sympathizers
of the reason why you exercise this
right. You have also the right to in
form business men .handling the Bucks
Stoe and Range Company's products
of its unfair attitude toward Its em
ployes and ask them to give their sym
pathy and aid in influencing the Bucks
fc'tove and Range Company to deal fair
Ij with its employes and come to an
honorable agreement with the union
primarily at interest."
Summing up the alleged Instances of
violation of the court's decree, the
prosecutors charge:
"The foregoing facts taken irom the
record, supplemented as thev aie by
taich other testimony, establish the'
fact that the boycott which both the
.cpreme Court of the District of Co
lumbia and this court sought to stay
by Injunction, continued with unabated
Activity, in cplte of those injunctions,
until July 20, 1910. when these respond
ents stopped It There Is no foundation
vhatcver for the assertion in the re
spondents' brief, or in their testimony,
that the bovcott ended on the filing of
the bond on December 23, 1M)7. or for
their other remarkable assertion that
there Is no evidence In the bill of ex
ceptions tending to prove such continu
ance of the boycott
"Not only was there evidence tending
to show the continuance of the boycott
subsequent to December S3, 1007, but the
undisputed evidence in the case com
pletelv established the fact that it con
tinued down to Ji'! 2). 1910. nearly
three rears after the injunction was
granted."
Quote Leaders.
Ifixtended quotations from the epeeclies
of Messrs. Gompers and Mitchell, edi
torials in tiie American Federatlonlst,
resolutions adopted by organized labor,
and other alleged utterances to further
the supposed' boycott ae given by the
prosecutors. The committee then con
cludes this phase of the case by urging:
"From ,the foregoing quotations from
the record in this case, it is'Impossible
for any reasonable man to doubt that
the respondents were engaged In a con
certed effort to keep up the boycott of
the Bucks Stove and Ran?,e Company
in defiance of the Injunction forbidding
them to do to, and that their conduct
was plainly In contempt of .the court
And If this court were authorized or
required to pass upon the weight of the
testimony, on this writ of error, we
have no doubt that it would concur in
lhe opinion of the, lower court that the
testimony established the charga."
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The committee of prosecutors takes
President Gompers to task for alleged
"Inconsistency" ln his statements .about
the meaning ot a "boycott" and the
good faith of the federation officials In
frjlng to obey the court's Injunction.
On this point the brief says:
Has Own Idea.
"A means of enabling himself to testlfy
to these otherwise hopelessly inconsis
tent statements appears to have been
found by the respondent by cstbllshlng
ln his own mind a conception of a boy
cott which would enable him. ln Tils
own consciousness, to differentiate be
tween maintaining a publicity with re
spect to the controvcrsw and the in
junctions which would destroy the
business of the Bucks Stove and Range
Company, and aiding r abetting the
boycott
"At page 335 of the record he asserts
that the constitution of the American
Federation of Labor does not provide
for the prosecution of boycotts; at page
4o5 he testifies that he 'obeyed the In
junction in every particular, in so far
as it was for the purpose of carrying
on a boycott or aiding or abetting it;'
at page 462 he testifies that 'the boy
cott ended, so far as the A. F. f I
or Its officers arc concerned, on De
cember 23, 1907,' and. at page 457, that
tne A. F. of L. maintained boycotts in
earlier years, but not In 1907.' At page
ioo, however, he defines' a boycott as
"an agreement of two or more persons
to refrain from bestowing their patron
age upon .any Individual' it may well
be there were no agreements, in some
senses of that word, formally entered
into while the injunctions were In force,
and that the various acts of the re
spondent Gompers- were not Intended
by him to aid or abet any formal agree
ments' to that efTect
"The metaphysical and " fallacious
character of this distinction is finally
admitted by him at pages 467-46S of the
record, where, after claiming that pub
lishing the names of firms or manu
facturers In the 'We don't patronize;
list is different from a boycott he
flnallv admits that 'there may be very
little difference between this and a boy
cott in witness' construction of this
term substantially the same thing in
effect"
Limitation Not Issue.
Referring to the contention of the
labor counsel that the statute of limita
tion should hold ln the proceedings, the
prosecutors assert:
"The next objection, attempted to be
presented by the sixth, seventh, and
fourteenth assignments of error, is, the
alleged refusal of the court below to
find the charges barred by the statute
of limitations. No basis for any one of
these assignments, however, 6 to be
found In the record:.
"The defense of limitations Is, of
course, exclusively statutory and.
wherever interposed, presents simply
the question whether tne. proceeding Is
one covered by the terms bf the statute.
From its Inception, for example, it hag
been held not to apply to anv proceed
ing ln equity, because the prohibition
is aganlst the brlngrng of "actions'
within the period specified, and suits in
equity do not fall within the legal no
menclature, 'actions.' Independently of
any. or of all, the considerations pre
sented in this brief upon this subject
It would seem to be an exceedingly
forced construction to contend that a
court of equity, proceeding within Its
own jurisdiction ana according to Its
own methods of procedure to vindicate
its authority, is Ipso facto converted'
into a court of law, and its proceedings
into an 'action,' or into a prosecution
within the meaning of a statute which
is plainly directed to prosecutions for
offenses, ln the criminal courts."
Quote Statutes.
Answering the claim of the contem
ners that contempt of court is a crim
inal offense, he committee says:
"Contempt -of court is not a criminal
offense, in any general sense of the
term, unless it can be claimed to have
been so created by a Federal statute.
Such a claim, recognized as essential
to their contention, was made by re
spondents' counsel in the court below,
declaring it to have been made criminal
by Section 725 of the Revised Statutes
which Indicates that courts of the United
States shall, among others, have the
power to punish by fine or imprisonment
contempts of their authority, not to ex
tend to any, cases except misbehavior In
their presvmce or so near thereto as to
obstruct the administration of. Justice,
the misbehavior of their officers, and
the disobedience or resistance 'by any
party, etc., to-any lawful writ process,
order, rule, decree or command of such
courts.
"The omission to renew that claim.
definitely, in their brief, would indicate
that some study has since been given to
the decisions of the Supreme Court upon
that subject"
The original contempt of court pro
ceedings were begun In 190S and the
three labor leaders were adjudged guil
ty of contempt of court and sentenced
to jail. The Judgment of the District
Supreme Court was uphelc1 by the Court
of appeals, but was reversed by the
United State Supreme Court on Jay
15. 1911. Justice Wright appointed the
committee of prosecutors. The commit
tee reported June 26, 1911, and the tak
ing of testimony began December 30.
1911. Subsequently arguments were
made before the six Judges and the re
spondents were again found guilty and
again sentenced to Jail.
Injured
Fireman Sues
Railroad for $100,000
A suit for J100A.O damages was filed
against the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
way Company ln the District Supreme
Court, today, by Joseph A. Daniels. a
fireman, who was Injured ln the col
lision between a runaway train of
empty cars and a locomotive at New
York and Florida avenues on August 8.
labt Daniels says he was pinned be
neath the wreckage for more than an
hour and was permanently injured.'
Attorney I- J. Mather appears for
Daniels.
Lecture on Statues.
A free Illustrated lecture, describing
the less well-known statues In the city,
will- be given In the Church of Our
Father, Universalis, next Sunday even
ing. A description of the Lincoln Mem
orial will also be given. All Illustra
tions will be new. many having been
made especially for this lecture.
CONSTIPATION
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I An nnt orine: thev
do not weaken: but
tlicy do start all the
secretions of the
liter and stomach
in a way that eoqn
puts these organs in
a healthy condition
and corrects consti
"adgffi-
pation.
Munyon'a Paw-Paw Pjlls are a tonic
to the stomach, liver and nerves. They
invigorate instead of weaken; they en
rich the blood instead of impoverishing
it; they enable the stomach to get all
the nourishment from food that is put
into it.
These pills contain no calomel, no dope,
they arc soothing, healing nnd -stimulating.
They echool the bowels to act with
out physic. Price 25 cents.
If you arc nervous, can't sleep and ait
weak and run down and need a wine
stimulant me ITanyon's Paw-Paw Tonic
For sale at all Drug Stores.
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DEBT FOR DISTRICT
Johnson's Point of Order Sus
tained ,and Cost May Be
$30,000,000.
After taking Its first step toward
Its repudiation of tile half-and-half
principle existing between the Fed
eral and District governments, the
House rested today ln its maltreat
ment of the District of Columbia ap
propriation bill.
The bill, in a badly emasculated
.shape, will be (Considered again to
morrow. Routine business on the
Wednesday calendar is scheduled for
consiaeration today.
"Meanwhile Congressman Ben John
s.on of Kentucky Is at last trium
phant sin one of his numerous as
saults upon the half-and-half ar
rangement. Setting aside the prece
dents of a third of a century, the
House decided last night tbafthe
District alone shall pay the 3975,408
carried ln the District bill as "inter
est and sinking fund on the funded
debt" of the District '
Johnson Wins HisfPoint
Mr. Johnson's point oik order against
this appropriation, payable heretofore
half and half out of the revenues of the
Federal and District Governments, was
sustained by Congressman Roddenbery,
acting as chairman of the Committee
"of the "Whole during the debate on the
bill. Congressman Burleson, ln charge
of the District measure, appealed from'
the decision of the Chair. The House
voted to sustain the Chair's ruling.
Thus the attitude of the House toward
the District and Its relations to the
Federal Government is revealed in such
manner as to alarm the citizens of
Washington. Congressman Johnson for
several years has been assailing the
half-and-half principle of the organic
act He now has an opening wedge to
pry apart the District and the Federal
treasury.
- 130,000,000 Back Debt
The clause in the District bill af
fected concerns less than a million dol
lars, but If Mr. Johnson's contention is
correct these is a moral obligation that
the District shall become responsible
for the entire amount paid on this fund
for the past thirty years, roughly esti
mated by Mr. Burleson to be 130,000,000.
The point of order against the sink
ing fund appropriation has several
times been made In the' House, but the
chair has heretofore overruled it Mr.
Roddenbery, In ruling against the
precedents, invited the House to vote on
an appeal. The House, by a vote of 97
to 3i sustained the chair and deter
mined to saddle the funded debt obliga
tion solely upon the shoulders of the
District
Acrimonious debate. preceded the rul
ing. Tho funded debt controversy fol
lowed the attempt of Mr. Johnson to
caddie npon the District under a rider
to an appropriation bill of ISTS. the total
nene of the upkeep of the police and.
Health Departments. The chair over
ruled Mr. Johnson on this, holding that
Congress had always maintained the
naif and half principle in this respect
cut he took an opposite, view on the
appropriation for the funded debt
Johnson's Contention.
Mr. Johnson said the act of June 28,
1174, read as follower
'"Hereafter the Secretary of" thf
Treasury shall pay the. Interest on the
3.65 bonds of the District of Columbia
issued in pursuance of the act of Con- I
gress approved June S8, 1874. when the
same shall become due and payable
and "all amounts so paid shall be cred-
uea as a part 01 tne appropriation, for
the year.br the United States rnnnrrf
he expenses of the District of Columbia
the expenses of the District of Columbia
"Now. Mr. Chairman, my point is
his, and I nof paly wish the chair to
catch It but I wish the members of the
House to get It: That the provision
now pending .before he House for consid
eration has only the naked words
" 'For interest and Kinking fund on
the funded debt. $976,408.'
"Now. that is a direct appropriation
In equal parts from the treasury of the
District as well as from the Federal
Treasury. My contention Is this, that
there Is no law to authorize that but
there Is a law which authorizes that
this interest shall be paid with tho
limitation placed upon it that
'""The same i-hail be credited as a
part of the appropriation for the year
by the United States toward the ex
penses of the District of Columbia as
herein -provided.'
"I Insist that that is the law and
that when the Committee on Appropria
tions brings In here a clause expressed
In a few words, leaving out the limita
tion that that money must be repaid
by the District ot Columbia to the Fed
eral Government, the law has not been
compiled with. The have no authority,
and I defy them to produce any au
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VERDICT OF HOUS
MEANS ADDITIONfl
We Wish to Talk
To Level-Headed -
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on the machinery of your car or truck and in increasing
its life and efficiency, you should see the demonstra
tion of
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the oldest and best known brand of automobile oils
on the market
at I. T. Donohoe's exhibit at the Automobile
Show tonight or any evening this week.
A ten-minute talk with us may mean the saving of
many dollars.
INVADER OIL CO.
Lessees of Charles P. Kellom & Co.
.Washington Branch, J. T. ROSE, Mgr.
3566 11th St. N. W. Tel. Col. 3796.
Main Office, New York City.
Branches ln Philadelphia and Doston.
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thority, which authorizes the dlrect'ap
proprlatlon of Federal moneys to the
payment of Interest on this 'debt with
out the qualifying words that it shall
bo returned to the Federal Treasury to
onset the appropriation made by Con
gress to the District of Columbia."
Saunders in Reply.
Congressman Saunders of -Vlrglnia-a
member of the Appropriations-Committee,
assailed the arguments 'of Mr.
Johnson, saying In part:
. "I challenge In totoi the proposition
of the gentleman that, there is' no as-7
sumption on th'e partj of ie JSovern
ment 'to, payoruhair.?of.-tho principal
without ilnv contract of reimbursement
On the . contrary: T specifically "asscrtl
tVinf tVila fiftvommprtt. rifflhrs.telv RS-1
sumed'.the. burden of one-half of this L
indebtedness, principal 'and Interest- , K
The chair-has already- adverted,-to
a principle to which . I wish to -call at
tention -lnthls connection,?, lie - con
tinued, .and"tmt is, iwhefif lesistktl6n
is enacted, and Is ot an ambiguous cnari
acter,- the action of ktfte 'body dealing
with that legislation ,.whlchr stamps' It
wlth-a specific, meanlng.hr an-Jnterpreta-1' have no right to;tnqulret Into- the'man
tlon ot.lt which fhe chair should s prop- 'gements of these 'comparttcs? asked
erly have ln mind .when 'hocomcs;io; congressman irouiy. -interpret
it as an. independent proposl- .Absolutely none; . said 'Mr.
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. i Intention of 'Law.
'Vn-r-ntNlin limn thlW. matter ckme'un
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with It. the act. of 1874, the act .of 153.
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ana uie aci 01 ioi. ana i -u.......
for the asumptloir ln terms of one-half
of the alnklnV fund of the nrlnclpal oc
curred in the sundry- clvir bill of 1S79,
and it was debated. If there had been
no contemporaneous debate on this, if.
on appropriating from that time to the
present, there had never been any refer
ence to the language of that act, the
terms of it-mlght-be considered ln some
respect Inapt and sufficient to bear out
the contention of the 'gentleman from
Kentucky. ,
"But tlfat has been stamped with that
meaning, and how can he now at this
late date, when we have been appropri
ating ln conformity with that meaning
ever since, get away from the facts
that the men or the body that enacted
the law Intended the law. should car
ryr Chair Upholds Johnson.
After reviewing the conflicting argu
ments and the rulings of the chair when
the question was presented previously.
Chairman Rodenbery upheld the John
son point of order, by saying:
"The chair Is of the opinion that the
act of June 11, IS78, and June 30, 18T9,
authorize the United States to advance-
sufficient sums to pay the interest and
sinking fund In the District of Colum
bia, but the entire amount is chargeable
tn the District of Columbia. In the
opinion of the chair nil sums appropriat
ed by tne present dui are uisoursea m
accordance with the provisions ot the
bill and not In accordance with some
other statute law. The only bearing
other acts can have on,the question un
der consideration Is whether or not
there is law authorizing an appropria
tion to be made in this bill.
"Construing the half and half pro
vision as it appears on the first page
nnd In the first section of this bill In
connection with the item to which tho
point of order Is made, the chair ia
forced to- the legal conclusion that one
half of the amount would be charged
to the United States and one-half to
the District of Columbia.
"That is. that under this act if It Is
Sassed. one-half Is chargeable to the
Istrlct funds and one-half to the Fed
eral Treasury, and that neither the Sec
retary of the Treasury nor any other;
administrative nor disbursing officer
could apply it In any other way.
"The chair Is of the opinion that un
der the acts of 1S7S and 1879. the entire
amount Is hcargeable to the District
nnd. therefore. Is of .the opinion that
there Is no law authorizing the pro
vtnlnn m Incornoratfed "ln this bill:
Therefore, the chair must sustain1 the
nolnt of order. " t
"The chair has no .sensitive -pride ot
opinion, and would be glad to entertain
an appeal so that the committee, com
posed largely, as It is, or able lawyers,'
mawy pas finally. If It may be so con
strued, upon the question."
Methodists Offer
Unfortunates Aid
A letter, pleading that toey no not
driven front the segregated district and
into the streets, where they would be
barred from decent homes an occupa
tions, has been received by the ReV.
Merrltt Earl, of the Congress Heights
M. E. Church, from a woman. The let
ter was written as the result of an In
dorsement by the congregation of Dr.
Earl's church of the Kenyon red-light
bill, now before Congress
The woman asks If the pastor believes
he Is doing a Christian act in driving
the women from the segregated dis
trict Into the street, where, because
they could obtain no honest occupation,
many would become thieves. She states
that neither the pastor nor a member
of his congregation would allow one of.
the women to enter his home, and asks
what the unfortunates aro to do. The
letter closes, with a plea for pity.
Dr. Earl has drafted u letter. In which
he promise, In behalf of the Methodist
Church, to d0 all things possible to
obtain employment and homes for every
woman who will give up the old life
and accept respectable employment. He
also promises that the women's organi
zations of the church will aid the wom
en who accept these terms to live a life
of respectability.
The letter will be sent to every woman
In the segregated district
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'There an old saying that a man
cannot, llffhlmseif.by his boot straps?';
rejoined Mr. Carusl. "Arid the. 'House
cannot by- resolution give itself the.
right to' do something which It is not'
enuiiea unaer mo. law to do." ,
Attorney Charles Douglas, from the
slde-llhVs, Interposed "with tha"svggei"
tlon that tho House might -C-vestlgate
all insurance companies, or thelntfur
ance? business generally, but'not'twtf
companies "only. . . ,
Congressman Berg'er insisted .that the
companies were dolnlng an Interstate
business ' and ware 'amenable to .inves
tigation on -account of .this. Mr. JCarusl
disagree, 'saying that 'the courts had
held 'that, insurance was not' "com
merce," and therefore there was no In-'
terstatn commeiee Involved.
Mr. Carusl devoted most of his time
at-the -morning sessions! Indefense-bf
the 'First. National Company, although
he "defended briefly the business "man
agement lof th.e Commercial.
Congressman Campbell asked then .to
Insert the Glover article In the 'record.
'(' ' Shelley Objects.
"Again I. object.'; said Mr. Sherley.
"I don't think tle record ought" to be
burcfened'wlth column 'after column of
this controversy."
Mr. Sims had barely started speak
ing when Uncle -Joe Cannon made the
point of order that he was not speaking
to the quesUon of privilege. Mr. Camp
bell made a similar point The Speaker
overruled both points of order.
"How long can he talk?" asked Uncle
Joe petulantly. "Can he speak for the
remainder of-the session?"
Speaker Clark, said he thought Mr.
Sims was entitled to at least an hour,
but he would, not rule on" that point
"Well then, wo are "at the mercy of
the gentleman from Tennessee," said
Mr. Cannon.
ilr. .Mann started to make' a polnt'of
no quorum.1 but Mr. Sims said he had
a sufficient number of listeners and
then proceeded to refute the state
ments made in the Glover article. Ho
again charged that In the closing days
of the Fifty-ninth Congress Mr. Glover
had attempted to get through a bill to
sell tho uovemmer.t iw acres 01 iana
ln the vicinity of Itock Creek Park at
more than its worth.
Challenges Power.
Challenging the Jurisdiction of the
committee over the private business
afTnirs of the First National and
Commercial Fire Insurance Companies,
and contending that the present ln
qulry must concern alone the 'relations
between the companies and the super
intendent of insurance, attorneys for
the companies began their arguments
today before the House District Com
mittee which recently closed' the In
surance probe.
Charles F. Carusl, general counsel for
the companies, submitted oral argu
ments today. He will be followed to
morrow by Attorney Charles A. Doug
las, representing the insurance com
panies and James Easby-Smith, attor
ney for George W. Ingham. Superinten
dent of Insurance of the District
The companies will also hie briefs
with with the House committee, which
scon will make Its report following the
taking of voluminous testimony.
Tho chief contention of Mr. Carusl to
day was that the committee must con
fine lUelf to tho relations between tho
companies and Mr. Ingham's depart
ment and that It has no authority to
make recommendations concerning the
Internal management of either the First
National or Commercial Companies.
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